(Spoilers) So when Axel comes back from CO...

[Avens]

Correct me if I'm off, because it might just be in a video I haven't seen yet--
But wait, he and Roxas don't free Maleficent's bird from the cage?
Aw, and I was hoping they'd have kept that in.

 

[Azrael]

It was perhaps something they overlooked but would add on in the novel.

 

[Audo]

Or you know, it was never canon in the first place.

 

[Memory Master]

I thought everything in the novels were canon?

 

[Azrael]

Simply Amazing so we have a plot hole.

 

[gelandporn]

Simply Amazing so we have a plot hole.

Or you know, it was never canon in the first place.

In that same short story, Roxas dual wields in front of Axel. We know now that would be impossible at that point.

 

[Avens]

Actually, the dual wielding was a mistranslation (so says Heartstation). I knew it wasn't necessarily canon, but I'd hoped.
Though I suppose I should have known better, seeing now as none of the scenes we were getting were from Hollow Bastion.

 

[Audo]

I thought everything in the novels were canon?

At the end of the day, the only thing that is concretely canon is the actual games.

 

[Lord_Marluxia]

Welp the game has changed a lot, cuz the scene when Saix tells axel something about traitors in castle oblivion in front of memory skyscrapper wasnt shown in the game, also there isnt any genie and roxas vid =( and also the world that never was isnt explorable T_T

 

[Mr. Wilhelm]

See it like Star Wars. The novels are canon, they are the expanded universe, but once the game contradicts the novels, the contradicted part of the novel becomes non canon, exactly like when a SW movie contradicts the expanded universe, this part of the EU becomes non canon.

 

[Avens]

See it like Star Wars. The novels are canon, they are the expanded universe, but once the game contradicts the novels, the contradicted part of the novel becomes non canon, exactly like when a SW movie contradicts the expanded universe, this part of the EU becomes non canon.

Meh... So for the future, which possible references to BBS should I consider suspect? This is what makes it hard...

 

[Azrael]

Meh... So for the future, which possible references to BBS should I consider suspect? This is what makes it hard...

Any reference to BBS outside the games is non-canon, wait they are references to BBS?

 

[Mr. Wilhelm]

Well, so far all what isn't contradicted. Days is the last game on the Nobody Arc, except maybe a couple chapter in Coded. So everything no contradicted in the Nobody Arc after Days release is most likely canon IMO.

KH1 is another issue though since Coded is filling the plot holes and possibly changing novel pertaining to Xehanort Heartless's arc.

Edit: I think hemeants hint, like Xemnas behavior in the novels or such.

 

[Chakolat Strawberry]

Any reference to BBS outside the games is non-canon, wait they are references to BBS?

If I remember correctly, Xigbar saying "You weren't the hero like the others". He was referring to TAV.
Or are you talking about Days alone?

 

[SuperSailorEarth]

I just watched the cut scene where Axel supposedly looked surprised at Roxas having two keyblades, and I'm not sure if I agree. I think that the surprise (if thats what his expression was) had more to do with the fact that he had 2 keyblades at that point out of nowhere, after fighting him with only that one a few days before. we know for a fact that after Xion Axel saw Roxas again, on his way to leave before his fight with Riku, so its plausible that he may have found out. Does Roxas's gravestone not reference his 2 keys?

 

[Chrono Mizaki]

See it like Star Wars. The novels are canon, they are the expanded universe, but once the game contradicts the novels, the contradicted part of the novel becomes non canon, exactly like when a SW movie contradicts the expanded universe, this part of the EU becomes non canon.

And this is why you should never trust Square-Enix with continuity, especially the likes of Chrono Cross and Advent Children ;D They are bound to fuck something up. I admit they improved tremendously, but they still have flaws with details in continuity.